Sentence examples for bowhead whale from inspiring English sources
From 1611, Spitsbergen became a base for whaling, where they targeted the bowhead whale.
By the end of the 18th century, whaling had ceased as the bowhead whale had reached local extinction.
The Late Pleistocene bowhead whale sequences were compared with a data set of 99 Holocene bowhead whale sequences from subfossils collected from Svalbard in the Arctic22.
The bowhead whale — Balaena mysticetus — is a member of the right whale family.
The bowhead whale is at the center of the culture for Inupiat Eskimos.
A bowhead whale hunt and festival are held annually in the spring.
These southern bowhead whale samples were all radiocarbon dated to the Late Pleistocene (Fig. 1).
The bowhead whale is a true Arctic species that remains in polar waters throughout the year12.
Figure 3: Survival of bowhead whale lineages during the Pleistocene Holocene transition.
For instance, adequate amounts of mtDNA from ca. 1000-year-old 1000-year-old 1000-year-oldicetus) bowheadave been obtained.
It sounds almost exactly like the song of the bowhead whale, a rarely encountered denizen of arctic seas.
